You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Theatre is immediate gratification

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

I love life. I love the live theater.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Be a fountain, not a drain.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.